Movie review: Things To Do
Directed by: Ted Bezaire
What a boring film. It attempted the awkward dialog and situational humour that succeeded so well in Napoleon Dynamite with miserable failure as the result.
The movie’s sentiment was appealing, reexamination of one’s life being the impetus for positive change. A formula like that would naturally seem to be a winner except when done poorly as was the case here.
The job of the director/actors/production team etc. is to make some connection between the audience and the characters on screen. If they fail at this task the watcher is tempted to liken the film to nothing more than moving colours on a screen. The audience does not need to love the characters, the connection can be anything from love to hate or somewhere in between but it must exist. The film failed to create any sense that I was watching something other than 2D cardboard cutouts. The scene of the film that was supposed to clinch everything and shock the viewer left me so bored and uninterested I nearly missed its importance.
The editing on this film was poor as well, scenes jumped around or were much too long or too short to make a cohesive whole. I don’t pretend to know what the proper proportions are to make a good film but I do know that there is one. Take for instance the example of a car, it is possible to drive with four different sized wheels but most people (myself included) would prefer to have them all the same size. Function exists even in art and artists need to take that into account if they wish to please an audience.
May 24th, 2007 at 23:09
I suppose it could follow that one should not put “Things To Do” on a To-do list… hahaha… yeah, that’s funny to me.